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Originally Posted by 4X4
Eh, pho... Care to elaborate on your last post in the questions about CP thread? I want to know what kind of mystical powers you mods have, and I want to hear an example of mods gone bad.
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Well mods can do all the standard stuff.. Remove/Edit/Delete posts, ban users, that kind of thing.. so really if a Mod wanted to they could mark ALL posts and delete them. Or ban everyone they can find, starting at the post count list. Or stealth edit posts to make things really bad for someone, there are couples who post for example, a mod could edit posts to make it seem someone is admitting to an affair or something.. and a hundred other evil things I can't think of right now.
I've never seen a mod go that bad, but on one forum I was on a looong time ago (a gaming forum, can't remember the name), I recall the one moderator who handled the money from donations decided to keep the money and leave the forum.. wasn't a huge amount, but still was nasty.
Or another forum I was on the site owner got a real job in the gaming industry, and the community basically split as all the moderators jockeyed for power and support.. there was all kinds of nasty posts, backbiting, etc among the mods and top people in the community.. I think eventually there was 3 or 4 sites that started up to try and capture the community. I ended up being a mod and a writer and sometimes graphic designer for one of the sites, but we were the lamest out of all of them I think
Things can go really sideways.